Apple updates Final Cut Pro X @ BJP

"Version 10.0.3 can now automatically syncs clips from a shoot using audio waveforms, time and date, or timecode "to create a Multicam Clip with up to 64 angles of video, which can include mixed formats, frame sizes and frame rates," says Apple. "The powerful Angle Editor allows you to dive into your Multicam Clip to make precise adjustments, and the Angle Viewer lets you play back multiple angles at the same time and

5 Ways for Photographers to use an iPad to Jumpstart their Business @ DPS

I've got a 6th tip: Let's petition Apple to come out with a better, unrestricted iPad, like say, unlocked WiFi and ports, a real battery and a bigger model for those of us that think the current iPad looks like an oversized iPhone. Things like they enjoy over at the Android camp.

Editing Video in Lightroom 4 @ DPB

Yes, you can edit video in Lightroom now, but its a very crude kind of editing. 

 

A “Happy Snap” Lightroom Workflow @ DPS

If you feel like a newbie to Adobe Lightroom here's a 101 001 to get you started. Remember, small steps. Oh, and no windows XP if you plan on upgrading to Lightroom 4, Adobe doesn't like that.

Lightroom 4 and Windows XP

Short story: Forget about it. Long story: You can still forget about it, but Adobe is sorry for you.

"As many have noticed, the Lightroom 4 public beta we released last week does not support Windows XP.  This decision did not come lightly and

Your Burning Lightroom 4 Beta Questions Answered! @ Photoshop.Blog

Just one of the answers:

Adobe camera raw 7 sneak peek video

"In this video taken straight from the laptop of our Senior Product Manager, Bryan O'Neil Hughes, get an early look at some of the things the Photoshop team is working on for Camera Raw."

Photoshop touch for Android quick hands-on @ NikonDigital

"There is one other wrinkle, at least for now. Tablets don’t make great cameras. Most mobile photos are still taken with phones or small point and shoots. So having an editor on your tablet is fun, and possibly a convenience, but you still need to get the image onto the tablet – and resized to

Automating Photoshop By Ellen Anon

"What if I told you that by the end of this article I could drastically boost your Photoshop productivity? Interested? That's actually not an exaggeration if you've never taken advantage of Photoshop's actions and batch processing tools. If you find yourself repeatedly performing the same (often mindless) tasks in Photoshop one step at a time, I'm going to show you a better way to work.

Will Lightroom 4 Be Worth The Upgrade Cost? @ DPS

"The improvements in Spot Removal mimic the improvements they made in the DNG fast loading technique. A step back…Adobe adjusted how they create the DNG files upon important to allow the vital image information to load first. In the past the whole file had to be loaded before you

Amazing Photoshop spoof: Fotoshop by Adobé

Created by Jesse Rosten: "This commercial isn't real, neither are society's beauty standards"

New Lightroom 4 Presets – The HDR “Look” @ Lightroom Killer tips

"I knew right from the start that I was going to create a preset that simulated an HDR “look”, so here’s my first one. There’s 3 different versions of it (Light, Medium, and Strong) and each has a few of the new sliders incorporated into it as well as some other settings. As always, let everyone

Lightroom 4 beta review @ Computer-Darkroom

"Importing images is an aspect of Lightroom that users have always found wanting. Beta 4 improves things a bit but probably still has some ways to go before it's nearly as slick as the competition. That said, the changes that have been implemented are to be welcomed. For example, you can

Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta review @ Pcmag

"A built-in map for geo-tagged photos has been available in Apple's competing Aperture ($79.99, 4.5 stars) and even iPhoto apps for more than a year. Of course, my iPhone records location data with the image file for photos snapped with the phone, and photos imported from it

Making Books in Lightroom 4 @ Pixiq

"My first 40 pages eBook made in Lightroom 4 is the best way to explain readers what the program can do. Get this free eBook now!"

Adobe postpones new CS6 upgrade policy, for now.

"So, all you folks with CS3 or CS4 can now rest easy if your plans have been to upgrade to CS6 all along, as this will give you the chance to do it with lower prices as you had been expecting. For those customers now on CS5 or CS5.5, it should cost

Free presets for Lightroom 4 and more @ PhotoshopCafe.com

"Lightroom 3 brought us the ability to add video to the Lightroom catalog and a crude way to preview them. Previews where made though Quick time, by popping the video up as a separate video file. Thankfully all that has changed. Lightroom 4 provides the ability to preview video

Lightroom 4 beta top 10 new features @ FGI

"Probably one of the most-requested Lightroom features is the ability to soft proof for screen and print output. The tool bar in Develop is your ticket to a check mark that will enable a proofing dialog beneath the histogram.  The ability to create a Virtual Proof Copy

Adobe Carousel renamed to "Revel"

New Update: Adobe Carousel Now Named Adobe Revel!
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A big thanks to all of our fans, followers and customers who have brought the number of Adobe

Lightroom 4 Public Beta: What's New @ DpReview

"The Lightroom 4 beta introduces quite a list of features, including a completely new book-creation module, expanded support for video, soft proofing capability, and geo-tagging of still and video images via a Google Maps-powered module. Image editing tools have also been significantly updated, with a new

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta initial preview @ DPNow

"Adobe has released the first public beta of the fourth generation of Lightroom. We don't know when Lightroom 4 will be on sale yet and going by previous public betas it could be some months away yet. There are no restrictions on the beta release and you don't need to already own Lightroom to download

What's new in Lightroom 4 @ LL

"But, what's a public beta, you ask? It's very clever actually. What it means is that anyone can download LR4 for the next while (maybe a couple of months). No cost, no need to have owned a previous version of Lightroom. Then, when the commercial version of LR4 ships your public beta version will cease to

Adobe releases Lightroom 4 beta

Another year, another LR beta.  Some hots & nots: Lots of video functionality added, like cropping and effects, geo-tagging and soft-proofing, but face detection didn't make it. And its still bad at making cofeee:

"New tools to enhance and share your digital photograph library

My Lightroom Workflow @ Beyond Megapixels

"- This first pass is very simple – I decide whether it’s a “keeper” or not. If I know I absolutely do not want to keep the photo or bother editing it, I click on the “reject” flag while the photo is highlighted (as in the screen shot – I rejected the photo on the right, and you can see the reject flag in the top left corner of that photo).

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Android review @ DPreview

"Unsurprisingly, Photoshop Touch doesn't offer the same level of flexibility as the full desktop version, but its feature set is impressively 'deep' nonetheless, and includes support for layers, a decent array of familiar Photoshop selection tools, effects and filters. Also available is a range of image acquisition options including synching to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, Facebook and Google Images.

Adobe Reports Record Quarterly and Annual Revenue

Everything seems nice and fine in Adobe-land, but still, they try to milk their customers to the maximum extent of the law. Adobe PR:

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 15, 2011

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Dec. 2, 2011.

Adobe posts Lightroom & Camera Raw 3.6 Final

Lots of bug fixes here. Some new cameras supported too:

TOTW: The Lightroom Paintbrush Tool @ Earthboundlight.com

Useful stuff, right there: "It's easy to think that Lightroom can only do global changes to an image and that for targeted adjustments you need

Confused by Lightroom? Piqix has some tips for you.

No, not by Adobe's pricing.update policy, but by the program itself: 

"Lightroom has the joy of being simple to start with, but still having hidden depths. Sometimes this means we see

Lightroom made easy Part 1 @ Dpnow.com

A nice introduction to Lightroom (using ver 3 beta 2) by Ian Burley:   "You can say goodbye to the laborious and repetitive process of finding an image on your computer, finding the application you want to use to edit your image with, opening it, loading your image, editing, and then saving your image, being careful not to accidentally over-write the original."   Link